IL CORRUPTION: AT LEAST IT’S NONPARTISAN
The Illinois Senate is expected to pave the way for a special election to fill Barack Obama’s senate seat. It’s looking for the proper PR fix in the wake of Governor Rod Blagojevich’s arrest on federal corruption charges. Technically speaking, Blagojevich gets to decide who gets the seat. And, to his credit, he was doing a great deal of due diligence with regards to which candidate could offer the most to the state financially.
There are also reports that the Illinois legislature will look to commission a new series of special gubernatorial portraits. Blagojevich and his predecessor George Ryan would be captured in their jail cells, wearing their prison uniforms. Ryan remains in jail, although President Bush has been reportedly thinking of pardoning him. Two other Land of Lincoln governors since the 1960s have gone to prison as well.
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